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When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. – Sharon Salzberg
  2. Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound. – Kevin CrossleyHolland
  7. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  8. The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed. – Billy Graham
  9. Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other’s perspective that they always think you are. – Dancolin Flamiano
  10. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds? – Sharon Salzberg
  11. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  25. These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. It’s tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning. – Sharon Salzberg
  27. By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
  29. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us-”and our beloveds-”healthier. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling. – juanda brahma metta
  37. Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth. – Marty Rubin
  40. changing your habits is your key to changing your life – kchaou mouna

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